In the New Zealand education system, decile was a key measure of socioeconomic status used to target funding and support schools. In academic contexts the full term "socioeconomic decile" or "socioeconomic decile band" was used.
A school's decile indicated the extent to which the school draws its students from low socioeconomic communities. Decile 1 schools were the 10% of schools with the highest proportion of students from low socio-economic communities.[1][2]
This system was implemented in 1995 and later replaced by the Equity index in January 2023.[3][4]
- ^ "School deciles". education.govt.nz. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "NZ Schools: The decile system". PPTA.org.nz. PPTA. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Inquiry into decile funding in New Zealand State and integrated schools". New Zealand Parliament. NZ Government. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "Dumping deciles: What's the Equity Index and how could it affect your school?". NZ Herald. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
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